The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-14


the morning of the 9Th the fire agaiI
broke out on the opposite side of thu
road, and in the afternoon the hote
was reported in danger. a fire com
pany left CatsBill early in the afternoon
for the scene.
The fires in the CatskilI Mountain,
were extinguisbed on the morning o.
the 7th by a heavy rain. Elijah TEN.
per, of Palenyille, was burned tC
death on the 9th while fighting this
flames. st. Patrick's Church, in
Dixon, Illinois. was burned on the
afternoon of the It'll. Loss, S45, 900.
Near Spring Station, Kentuck )
on the morning of the Sth, Miss Hen
Meta Blackburn, niece of United
States Senator Blackburn, accompa-
nice by her cousin, Henrietta Hemp
stead, aged 10 years, went out to shoot
at a mark with a small rife. They
we're joined by Samuel Blackburn,
aged %, brother of Miss HenTitta
Blackburn, and a friendly contention
was begun as TO who should shoot at
the mark first. The three engaged in
a playful struggle for the possession of
the rifle, and in this struggle the
weapon was discharged, the ball pierre
ing the heart of Miss Henrietta Hemp
stead and killing her instantly.
F. Oliver, of Beardsley, Illinois,
on the 9Th jumped from a train in the
Burlington Railroad at Iowa Point and
was drowned. "He was frightened by
two confidence men who were working
him. He ran to the platform, dragging
with him, his ~ten-year-old son. The con-
ductor grabbed the boy in time to save
him. Oliver was temporarily ~insane''
William Slaughter, a wealthy stock
! aiser of Socorro county, Mexico. was
assassInated in the American Valley on
the 9th by two men named Young
blood and Adkins. Last year Slaughter
was a member of a grand jury who
indicted Adkins and Youngblood,
among others, for cattle stealing, and,
it is said, he was chiefly instrumental
in procuring the indictments.
John Fromer was shot dead by his
wife at Greensburg, Indiana, on the
the morning of the 7th. They had
been separated for a short time, because
of Mrs. Fromer's violent aversion to
two children of Fromer by a former
wife. The %provocation for the shoot
ing was Fromer's refusal to place the
two children in a boarding house and
return to his wife. The mystery sur
rounding the shooting of Mrs. Tarboll,
near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, on the eveu-
ing of the 7th, has been cleared by her
husbands confession that he did the
shooting and then wounded himself to
avert suspicion. He gave no reason for
the crime. 1t is thought Mrs. Tarbell
will recover. Port Budget, aged 81
years was killed in Upton county, Ten
nessee, on the 9th, by two n%elghbors,
named Wilson and Smith. He had
threatened to kill them because they
had stopped him in whipping his wife,
and they anticipated his purpose.
while a crowd of white and col
ored people were watching a baptism
immersion at a wharf in New Orleans,
a railing broke from the pressure, pre-
about fifty persons into the
Eleven-tw0 women and nine
children-are known to be drowned.
A freight train on the Fitchburg
Railroad was wrecked by a landslide
near Miller'5 Falls, Massachusetts, on
the evening of the 9th. Thirty ars
were thrown down HI enbankment.
John Hall, a brakeman, is missing
and supposed to be under the wreck.
While men were at work on the new
railroad, near Shenandoah, Penna., on
the It'll, a tree which another workman
was cutting down fell among them,
one man and fatally tnjuring
another. The canning mill of the
Latin Powder Company, at MoosIc,
blew up on the afternoon of
the 9TH. Joseph Frazer was killed.
AT Lancaster, Penna.. on the Sth,
The jury In the case of Mrs. Maria bell
the Pennsylvania Railroad
rendered a verdict giving her
5000 damages for the loss of her hus-
band, who was killed on the tracks of
that company, near Landlsville.
The Chief Signal Officer, in the
first OF a series Of weekly weather bull
Ietins issued on the 9Th, says that the
from January list to date in the
sections of the country has
Jeen about as follows: SIN the grain
Of the North it has been COM
paratiyely cold and dry; in the cotton
to the west of Georgia, warm
md usually dry; in the cotton and rice
on the south Atlantic coast,
cold and comparatively dry; in the
.obacco regions of Virginia and North
Carolina cold and dry; in the tobacco
of Kentucky, Tennessee aud
the weather has been
warmer, with rainfall slightly less than
Usual, except in Northern Kentucky,
where the rainfall was slightly in ex-
'ess. From the reports received it APP
,ears that the meteorological conditions
# the past week have had the effect of
advancing the season in those
sections where it had been previously
'etarded."
1t is reported that an Aggravated"
has broken out among the
in Warren county, n. j., and IA
of animals have died. The
disease was introduced by Western
lorses.
ALI the thirteen counties of the up
,er peninsula of Michigan were devas-
ated by the wind storm of last week.
The wind twas a straight blast OF from
.wo to ten hours duration" Houses
we're unroofed or demolished, unfin-
shed buildings destroyed. Only three
abilities are reported. but many were
severely injured. 1t is estimated that
he damage for the upper peninsula will
each Sl00, 600, including the pine
tumpage destroyed. A heavy thunder
passed owe Pittsburg and ALE
yheny City at five O'Clock on the even
ng of the 7th. In Allegheny City
our dwellings and a church were
struck by lightning. and on the Steu'
1enville pike a dwelling was wrecked
md a woman ~paralyzed by the electric